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BONUS DBTBRMINING DEVICE.' No. 580,156. Patented Apr. 6, 1897.

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BONUS-DETERMINING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 580,156, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed December 14, 1896. Serial No. 615,658. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J UnsoN H. DRoBIscH, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bonus-Determining Devices, of which the followingis aspecification.

This invention is designed to provide a superior substitute for coin-rotated wheels in the determining of bonuses as an incentive to trade. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is delined in the appended claims;

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a rear elevation of my device with part of the casing removed to expose working parts. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the device from front to back. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section from front to back through the base and pedestal, showing details relative to the dumping operation of the coin-intercepting plate. Fig. et is a face elevation of the exterior surface of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is a section on line Xin Fig. 1, showing certain peculiarities in connection with the admission of coin to the operative parts of the device.

In constructing a device in accordance with my invention a circularA disk l is equipped with a central shaft 2, which extends through the disk and is preferably mounted on ballbearings. The disk is grooved annularlyconcentric with the shaft, as shown at 8, such groove being wide enough to accommodate a nickel, for instance, and a narrower groove 7 is formed in the bottom of groove 8. The groove 8 is partly inclosed by circular plates 9 and 11, one on the inside of the circle and the other on the outside, and such plates form a closure sufficient to hold a coin in that part of the groove that acts as a track for the coin. The shaft is provided on the grooved side of the disk with a spider having a plurality of equidistant radial arms, as 3, four being the preferred number. Each arm has a pin, as 4, that projects into the groove of the disk and forms a contact-surface for the coins. The opposite face of the disk is gradated, as shown in Fig. 4, and a pin, as 26, projects from each gradation-mark. A hand, as 5, is mounted on the end of shaft 2, that projects beyond the gradated face of the disk, and such hand has an elastic pointer 6, that engages the pins' 2G, as the hand rotates and compels the hand to stop with the pointer in a space between two pins.

The disk, equipped as described, is held between a rear recessed disk 15 and a front ring 13, the latter being supplied with a glass face 25. The ring 13 and disk 15 are mounted on or formedintegral with the pedestal 16, which is hollow and is mounted on the coin-receptacle 2l. A shaft 1S extends from side to side through the pedestal 16, and it has a platevalve 19, that is balanced on the shaft. Glass plates 17 are inserted in openings in the pedestal immediately above the valve 19, and a slot 14 makes a passage for coin from the `groove of the disk to the valve of the pedestal. A partition 20 is placed in the hollow of the pedestal immediately below the shaft 18, and the drawer 22 of the coin-receptacle has a partition 23, that coincides with the partition of the pedestal.

The front wall of the coin-receptacle (designated by 24) may carry a statement relative to the character of the device, as indicated in Fig. 2. i

The shaft 1S has a head 28, by means of which it is rocked.

A slot 12 is formed through the ring 13 and disk 15 at or near the top of the device, and such slot provides for the insertion of a coin into the groove in disk l. The side of plate 9 adjacent to the slot is extended upward, as

shown at l0, and a corresponding and opposing plate 10 is also thrown up inside groove S, as shown in Fig. 5. This provides a guide for the coin in passing through the slot to the groove that effectually precludes the possibility of the coin becoming misplaced in the groove.

The disk l is held in a vertical position while in operation. A coin is deposited in the slot, through which it passes to the groove S. The groove forms a track down and around which the coin rolls, and the spider is rotated by the coin striking a pin 4 in an arm 3 and forcing it around in the direction the coin is traveling. IVhen the coin reaches slot 14 it falls through the same onto plate 19, while the spider travels on until its impetus is eX- hausted. Vhen the spider finally stops, the pointer 6 of hand 5 will rest over a numeral l or a numeral 2 on the gradated face IOO of the disk. According to the established rule in the use of such devices, if the pointer stops over a numeral l the investor of the coin that has given the momentum to the spider Will be entitled to the value of the coin in the trade of the establishment in which the device happens to be placed, and nothing more. If the pointer should stop over a 2, the investor would be entitled to a bonus equal to the value of the coin; or, in other words, the purchasing power of his coin would be doubled. As the coins are detained on plate 19 until the merchant inspects them before delivering their value, or their artificial value established by the chance operation of the device, it is possible to dump the single-value coins into one compartment of the coin -receptacle and the double-value coins into the other compartmen t, and thereby furnish data for calculating the per cent. of bonus deliveries and determining whether or not the use of the device is paying.

As a matter of convenience the base formed by the coin-receptacle is supplied with matchboxes, as 27, the device being commonly placed in cigar-stores, but this is optional with the maker or the user.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a coin-actuated device, the combination of a casing, anl arc-formed stationary track in the casing, down which acoin may roll through force of gravity, an admissionslot communicating with the upper portion of the track, a spider journaled concentric with the track and having a plurality of arms, and pins on the arms projected across the track, whereby a coin rolling down the track will encounter a pin and rotate the spider, substantially as set forth.

2. In a coin-actuated device, the combination of a casing, a vertical disk in the casinghaving a circular groove in one of its faces and having its opposite face gradated, a shaft extending through the disk concentric with the groove, a plurality of arms forming aspi- Vder that is fastened on one end of the shaft, pins projecting from the arms into the groove,y

tacle beneath the valve having a partition in line with the shaft, whereby the Acoins detained on theA valve may berdumped into either compartment of the coin-receptacle, substantially as set forth.

4. In a coin-actuated device, the combination of a casing, an arc-formed, stationary track down which a coin mayroll by force 0f gravity, and a rotatable member journaled concentric with the arc and having pins projected across the stationary track, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Attest:

H. F. DRoBrsoH, GEO. HARPSTRITE.

JUDsoN H. DRoBIsCH( 

